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Definition of Like royalty
1. Adverb. In a royal manner. "They were royally treated"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Like Royalty
Literary usage of Like royalty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879 by Charles George Gordon, George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1881)
"I suffer a little like royalty—that is to say, nothing the Soudan soldier likes
... Yet I am not like royalty a bit, for I cleaned a duck gun in public ..."
2. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, 1874-1879: From Original Letters and by Charles George Gordon, George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1885)
"I suffer a little like royalty—that is to say, nothing the Soudan soldier ...
Yet I am not like royalty a bit, for I cleaned a duck gun in public to-day. ..."
3. The Great Law: A Study of Religious Origins and of the Unity Underlying Them by William Williamson (1899)
"... was housed and fed like royalty while alive, and embalmed and entombed like
royalty when dead; while the cow or Brahmin bull in every Indian village, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"Templeton, of Ayr, paid £200 and a like royalty for Scotland. The goods become
enormously popular, and Stephen Sanford, of Amsterdam, NY, also secured the ..."
5. The Attaché: Or Sam Slick in England by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856)
"With a Queen all men love, and a Prince all men like, royalty has a root in the
heart here. Pity, too, for the English don't ..."
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